Pathway to Ecstasy: The Way of the Dream Mandala

Garfield, Patricia

Garfield is a psychologist specializing in dreams, and she writes about how she personally developed and applied a method of self-exploration through the dream mandala, a system of charting dream symbolism as a personal path to evolution and enlightenment. In the book, which is largely autobiographical, she shows how the dream mandala approach works in her own life, and how it "can lead to altered states of consciousness, to lucid dreams, to out-of-body experiences, to orgastic ecstasy, to healing states, and to mystic experiences" (p. 23).